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            <h1>Tutorial &minus; Introduction</h1>

            <p>This tutorial is intended to introduce you to the CodeIgniter framework and the basic principles of MVC architecture. It will show you how a basic CodeIgniter application is constructed in step-by-step fashion.</p>

            <p>In this tutorial, you will be creating a <strong>basic news application</strong>. You will begin by writing the code that can load static pages. Next, you will create a news section that reads news items from a database. Finally, you'll add a form to create news items in the database.</p>

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                <li>Performing basic database queries using &quot;Active Record&quot;</li>
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            <p>The entire tutorial is split up over several pages, each explaining a small part of the functionality of the CodeIgniter framework. You'll go through the following pages:</p>
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                <li><a href="static_pages.html">Static pages</a>, which will teach you the basics of controllers, views and routing.</li>
                <li><a href="news_section.html">News section</a>, where you'll start using models and will be doing some basic database operations.</li>
                <li><a href="create_news_items.html">Create news items</a>, which will introduce more advanced database operations and form validation.</li>
                <li><a href="conclusion.html">Conclusion</a>, which will give you some pointers on further reading and other resources.</li>
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